Kim Pilling

UK

Kate joins celebration as young mother marks end of chemotherapy treatment

The ceremony came as a welcome surprise for patient Claire Lorente, her partner Pablo and son Enzo.
4 Jun 2026
Business News

Arrest warrant issued for former Co-op boss Paul Flowers

It came as he failed to attend court on Wednesday.
8 Nov 2023
Crime

Families deserve answers at inquiry into Letby’s ‘horrific crimes’, says Barclay

The Health Secretary has published the inquiry’s terms of reference.
19 Oct 2023
Crime

CPR did not cause ‘multiplicity’ of baby’s rib fractures, murder trial jury told

Prosecutors say Laura Langley, 37, squeezed her seven-week-old daughter Edith to death at their home in Blackpool.
19 Oct 2023
Crime

Force used to cause baby’s rib injuries was ‘way beyond rough play’, jury told

Laura Langley, 37, is accused of murdering her daughter Edith by inflicting ‘terrible injuries’.
17 Oct 2023
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UK

Woman ‘critical’ in hospital as Manchester bus crash driver arrested

Police, fire and ambulance crews were dispatched after reports of the incident in Piccadilly Gardens.
16 Oct 2023
UK

One person seriously hurt and nine others in hospital after Manchester bus crash

Police, fire and ambulance crews were dispatched after reports of the incident in Piccadilly Gardens.
16 Oct 2023
Manchester bus crash
UK

Bus crashes into Manchester city centre shop

Police, fire and ambulance crews were dispatched after reports of the incident in Piccadilly Gardens

16 Oct 2023
Crime

Murder-accused mother ‘squeezed baby girl to death’, jury told

Seven-week-old Edith Langley, from Blackpool, sustained 33 fractures, with virtually all her ribs broken, Preston Crown Court has been told.
12 Oct 2023
Crime

American boxing trainer spared jail after bringing gun into UK

McIntyre admitted unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.
9 Oct 2023
Crime

Drugs regime at hospital unit ‘open to abuse by any member of staff so minded’

Nurse Catherine Hudson, 54, was convicted of drugging patients at Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s stroke unit to ‘keep them quiet and compliant’.
5 Oct 2023
Crime

Nurse found guilty of ill-treating hospital stroke unit patients

Catherine Hudson, 54, drugged two patients for an ‘easy life’ during shifts at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
5 Oct 2023
UK

Wanted sex offender arrested and recalled to prison

Lancashire Constabulary had appealed for information on the whereabouts of Stephen Pennington.
2 Oct 2023
UK

One seriously injured and nearly 50 ‘assessed’ after school bus M53 crash

The incident involved an overturned coach near Hooton, Cheshire.
29 Sept 2023
UK

Motorway closed after accident involving school bus

Emergency services were called after reports of an overturned coach on the M53 in Cheshire.
29 Sept 2023
Crime

Nurse Lucy Letby to face retrial on allegation she tried to murder baby girl

The 33-year-old will face trial on an alleged incident which is said to have taken place in February 2016.
25 Sept 2023
Crime

Nurse who denies unlawfully sedating patients is a ‘complete fraud’, jury told

Catherine Hudson, 54, is accused of drugging patients on Blackpool Victoria Hospital’s stroke unit with unprescribed sleeping pills.
20 Sept 2023
Crime

Date set for retrial decision on serial killer nurse Lucy Letby

The jury of seven women and four men could not reach verdicts on some of the allegations against Letby

7 Sept 2023
Crime

Baby murderer Lucy Letby to spend rest of her life in jail for ‘evil’ crimes

She was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six more while working in the Countess of Chester Hospital’s neonatal unit.
21 Aug 2023
Crime

Letby victim was buried in gown chosen as gift by killer nurse

Mother of victim said she felt ‘sickened’ by the decision

21 Aug 2023
Crime

Killer nurse Letby has destroyed our lives, say parents of murdered triplets

The deaths in June 2016 were the ‘tipping point’ for consultants who suspected Letby was to blame.
21 Aug 2023